Maybe there is a reason Ben Affleck took nearly a week to address growing allegations that his former mega-producer friend and collaborator Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed and assaulted actresses and other women he worked with.

That’s because hours after Affleck finally spoke up Tuesday to say he was “saddened and angry” over the Weinstein allegations — and that we must “condemn this type of behavior when we see it” — the A-list star was reminded on social media that perhaps his own record on treating women inappropriately issue isn’t so clean.

After a fan suggested that Affleck should have “kept quiet,” another Twitter user wrote, “He also grabbed Hilarie Burton’s breasts on TRL once. Everyone forgot though.”

The incident happened when the now 35-year-old Burton was hosting MTV’s TRL, People said. The breast-grabbing was caught on camera.

Burton then shared a clip of TRL outtakes in which she says, “He comes over and tweaks my left boob,” apparently speaking about Affleck. Later in the video, the actor is shown asking her, “How old are you — 19?

“Girls. I’m so impressed with you brave ones,” Burton, who is expecting her second child with The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan, wrote in the tweet. “I had to laugh back then so I wouldn’t cry. Sending love.”

Meanwhile, Affleck faced increasing criticism from actress Rose McGowan, one of the women revealed to have reached a settlement with Weinstein. Over the weekend, she blasted Affleck and other male stars, including Matt Damon, Russell Crowe and Affleck’s brother Casey Affleck, for their silence on Weinstein, following last week’s bombshell expose about the disgraced Hollywood kingmaker in the New York Times.

Via Twitter, McGowan called Damon “a spineless profiteer” after a former New York Times writer suggested he and Crowe helped kill a 2004 story she was preparing on Weinstein’s alleged pattern of sexual misconduct.

McGowan also referred to the controversy over a 2010 lawsuit alleging Casey Affleck sexually harassed two female crew members on the set of a movie he was working on. The sexual harassment charges dogged Affleck this past awards season when he was campaigning for a best actor Oscar for “Manchester By the Sea.”

Following Affleck’s statement Tuesday, claiming he didn’t know that Weinstein used coercion or force on women, McGown called him a liar. She and Affleck co-starred in the 1998 film “Phantoms,” which was distributed by Weinstein’s Miramax company and released a year after an alleged episode between Weinstein and McGowan at a Sundance hotel room resulted in a $100,000 payout to McGowan, the Daily Beast said.

McGowan believes he and others knew of Weinstein’s behavior for years but said nothing.

She tweeted: “Goddamnit! I told him to stop doing that!”

“@benaffleck ‘GODDAMNIT! I TOLD HIM TO STOP DOING THAT’ you said that to my face. The press conf I was made to go to after assault. You lie,” McGowan tweeted.

@benaffleck “GODDAMNIT! I TOLD HIM TO STOP DOING THAT” you said that to my face. The press conf I was made to go to after assault. You lie.

Martha Ross is a features writer who covers everything and anything related to popular culture, society, health, women’s issues and families. A native of the East Bay and a graduate of Northwestern University and Mills College, she’s also a former hard-news and investigative reporter, covering crime and local politics.